Quote Originally Posted by Gare View Post
8. You can choose BMP, but in Xara and in MS-Paint, you will lose an alpha channel, because neither program supports BMP with transparency. Which is odd, because Microsoft developers coded the BMP to be able to support a single transparency layer. Macromedia used to recognize and support an alpha in BMPs.
yes I had second thoughts as I added the last bit hence the 'AFAIK' - I have since checked back; it is possible to create a BMP with transparency in Photoshop by specifically creating an alpha channel and then saving as 32bit BMP with 'alpha channel[s] enabled in the export dialog, although in practice that is not a file with transparency as far as programs without channel editing are concerned